Month: September 2008
In spite of the fact that I teach for a living and have been running my own courses for about 15 years, I experience tremendous, daily pre-class anxiety, enhanced by.
I'm baffled by this quasi-rationalization of McCain's reprehensible campaign from erstwhile McCain-lover Jon Chait:Any attempt to determine McCain's true motives is necessarily pure speculation. It's possible that McCain has convinced.
The preening debate cancellation nonsense seems to have a clear objective -- burying Sarah Palin for as long as possible. I guess you can't argue with the logic in a.
Sometime in the next 30 hours:(a) A bailout deal will be announced and McCain will participate in the debate.(b) McCain will announce that after personally taking part in the negotiations.
I'm re-writing this post to take into account the latest information (it turns out that I was looking at reporting that was a day old). Apparently the Democratic leadership is.
(1) Is McCain sick? I agree with Aimai that it seems unlikely, given his schedule -- he took a meeting with Lynn Whatshername de Rothschild this morning and did an.
My first reaction is that this sounds like a truly bizarre publicity stunt.My second reaction is that this is a sign of desperation and Obama should refuse.Update: This is absolutely.
This reminds me of perhaps my very favorite Saint Greenspan moment: his solemn admonition to Congress that if we didn't pass a massive package of upper-class tax cuts we'd...pay down.